What Crystal is this?
canid
Looks like aquamarine crystals.
ETA: Too bad beryl doesn't fluoresce - I just checked. That way you'd know for sure.
ETA: Too bad beryl doesn't fluoresce - I just checked. That way you'd know for sure.
Briar Rose
I am hoping so. This chunck is quite a bit of Aquamarine, if it is. But not really all that gemmy in quality, but cherish-able just the same. A treasure. No other guesses I can look into?
photokat
Briar Rose said:
Flourite would be another option .... but looks more like Aquamarine to me.
Briar Rose
yeah, it looks and feels like Aquamarine. Flourite usually has that soapy or waxy feeling to it. Thank you for the replies.
canid
What's the crystaline structure? How many sides do the crystals have? They can be worn down, but that piece looks pretty good - count the sides of the one that has the most sides, if that makes sense. Fluorite's crystaline structure is cubicle; if there are more than 4 sides on any of them, it's not fluorite. Beryl (aquamarine, emerald) has six sides, but like I said, some of them could be worn off. I have a hunk of emerald that's about 5 lbs I dug up in Michigan - it's really cool. No, it's not indiginous to that area, the previous owner was a rock hound & evidently when he died his wife dumped/buried his collection & when I started gardening I was finding the coolest rocks I was digging up everything!
tarotlyn
...canid and photokat are right I think...could this be it, Briar Rose?
Large picture:
http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/mineralart126/W00501.jpg
and see the rest on the ebay auction here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/W005-BULK-BERYL...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2301d34810
Hope that helps, my friend!
Big Hug!
LynBriar Rose
What a lovely pic, TarotLyn, of all the Aquamarine's.
It's truly a beautiful stone, and I love holding it, and wearing it.
It's truly a beautiful stone, and I love holding it, and wearing it.
photokat
Briar Rose said:
I think what matters it that you really like the crystal - even if you don't know for certain which one it is.
(Just my opinion).
Briar Rose
I do love it. It's so beautiful I put it in the bath tonight, and I feel the colors are more prominate.
And good thinking Canid, the crystals appear to have more than 4 sides, so it's Aquamarine. I can take it to the gem guy in Lenox and he what he says (sometime in the spring).
I am really happy. I was just chatting last week with a lucky charm, saying that I really wanted one of those huge chuncks of Aquamarine. Then I came ino this.
Any chance you can please post any pics Canid of your lovely treasures? I feel the pictures are so uplifting.
And
good thinking Canid, the crystals appear to have more than 4 sides, so it's Aquamarine. I can take it to the gem guy in Lenox and he what he says (sometime in the spring).I am really happy. I was just chatting last week with a lucky charm, saying that I really wanted one of those huge chuncks of Aquamarine. Then I came ino this.
Any chance you can please post any pics Canid of your lovely treasures? I feel the pictures are so uplifting.
